Hacking group is on a tear, hitting US essential infrastructure and SF 49ers

A helmet for the San Francisco 49ers football team.

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A few days after the FBI warned {that a} ransomware group referred to as BlackByte had compromised essential infrastructure within the US, the group hacked servers belonging to the San Francisco 49ers soccer crew and held a number of the crew’s knowledge for ransom.

Media representatives for the NFL franchise confirmed a safety breach in an emailed assertion following a put up on BlackByte’s darkish website online, on which the hacker group makes an attempt to disgrace and scare victims into making large payouts in change for a promise to not leak the info and to supply a decryption key that permits the info to be recovered. The latest put up made obtainable for obtain a 379MB file named “2020 Invoices” that appeared to indicate a whole bunch of billing statements the 49ers had despatched companions together with AT&T, Pepsi, and town of Santa Clara, the place the 49ers play residence video games.

A busy three months

In an emailed assertion, franchise representatives stated investigators have been nonetheless assessing the breach.

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